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So the question is, "What is the healthy version of this world?" And the healthy version of the world is one where you have marketplaces for virtual goods of all kinds, whether NFTs, in-game skins, membership tokens in communities, whatever. You have these concepts that you have in FX, like best execution and minimizing brokerage fees being put int... See more

Solving the problem of incentivizing creative work that endures: Most media distribution and monetization models incentivize quantity over quality. Newspapers, radio networks, podcasts, magazines, books, movies, and on and on receive the lion’s share of their revenue in a short window after release. It is increasingly hard for any medium to have bl... See more

Cultural DAOs and Gaming Guilds Although DeFi protocols have grown exponentially since financial incentives were developed, DAOs with token distribution models independent of usage and participation (unlike DeFi DAOs) are on the rise. I assisted in creating a commemorative video for Uniswap V3 by pplpleasr, née Emily Yang. Several DeFi developers a... See more

Also consider: All it takes is for one game world built on-chain to remotely succeed, and then it’s game over for anything that’s solely entertainment. Think about it – why bother investing any meaningful time or resources into a game world where you aren’t building real world value?

If you take nothing else away from this article, remember this idea: In a capitalist economy, artificial scarcity creates the conditions for discovering culture’s true market value.